Why a busineman’s body has been in morgue for three years

The graveyard at Ofunyu village in Nyalunya Kisumu County where the late Stephen Onyango Achola who died three years ago is supposed to be buried. [Collins Oduor/Standard]

At the heart of the stalemate is burial rights under Luo customs, although undertones reek of a succession battle over estate.

Battered by two-and-a-half years of heavy rains and scorching sun in Kisumu’s Kano plains, the concrete walls of a grave meant to be the final resting place for Stephen Onyango Achola are crumbling.